A kid forgot his instrument but showed up to a performance in middle school and the teacher told him to "sit in his seat and make the gestures. No one will see you anyway."
I was too busy with my own music to watch but I know he did it. I bet it was amazing.
I actually know of a young couple in my town who died from fentanyl in their weed. I went and told everyone I knew (and linked them the obits) to warn them to stop buying street weed (it's illegal here) and make sure they're getting it safe.
You started with "no one is changing their mind," and then went on to say there's only leftists on this platform... so then why are you posting at all?
The thing that's so irritating to me isn't the tone, isn't the weird preaching, isn't the push to follow on social media. What gets me (as it always does) is that assholes like this push their message as a one-size-fits-all message.
Assholes like this always think everyone else works just like them, and it makes me crazy.
And there's a lot of things that were just straight up not recognized.
People bitch about how there's "more" ADHD, but when I was a kid, the prevailing knowledge was that girls don't have ADHD. Cue the meteoric "rise" in cases.
(There's a million other things I could've used as an example but I used ADHD because I wasn't diagnosed until I was 36.)
We found a box turtle walking across the road in the suburbs one day with a group of children gathered around and decided to turn it into a lesson on why they needed to leave they turtle alone (or at least if they were moving him off the road, to move him in the direction he was going.)
They're awesome looking turtles. I wouldn't think if owning one or eating one. Not my idea of cuddly or... food.
I've adjusted how I read your comments with that knowledge.
"Be at peace" in English is considered an order, and isn't usually said out of kindness (at least not in America). Here, it can be read as a threat. Which I now know you didn't mean.
I believe in being kind, I believe in helping others, I believe in the hardworking men and women in medicine. There's so many things I believe in that it would take forever to list it all.
I also believe that telling other people sanctimonious things like "Be at peace with your natural choices. There will always be a cost" is not only off-putting and self-aggrandizing, but exactly the kind of crap the Bible tells you not to do.
I'll leave you with some advice my favorite nun gave me when I was 12. No one left alive hasn't heard the message of Jesus Christ. There's no one left. So proselytizing the way the Bible commands you to do is almost impossible. Since you can reasonably assume most people who aren't Christian have reason not to be, the best way to reach them isn't by being a holier-than-thou preacher, it's by living the light of the word and showing non-Christians what that means. "Live by example, what Christ has done for you."
Because one of the other things I believe, is that genuine Christians, who follow their book, are some of the best people on Earth. But for every one of them, with a kind heart and forgiving words and judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged stamped on their lips, there's about three hundred assholes saying vaguely judgemental shit on the internet and to one another behind closed doors. The "cost" of which only serves to help close those hearts and minds further to any positive message the Bible encourages you to spread.
A kid forgot his instrument but showed up to a performance in middle school and the teacher told him to "sit in his seat and make the gestures. No one will see you anyway."
I was too busy with my own music to watch but I know he did it. I bet it was amazing.